Australia, this is where your aid goes | The Australian: "But yesterday the Foreign Affairs Minister went to extraordinary lengths even by his standards, flying straight from a week of intense lobbying in New York for a seat on the UN Security Council to Mongolia to visit an Australian funded kindergarten for severely disabled children.
With the Government under fire for the alleged largesse of it's bid for a Security Council seat, Mr Carr denied Australia was in an aid-for-votes race with Luxembourg and Finland, claiming the Government had spent a fraction of what the European nations had."
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